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Watching government erase our borders

Econ101

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Watching government erase our borders



Henry Lamb

Canada Free Press

Monday, July 17, 2006



It began in 1993, with an expansion of the "La Paz Agreement" between the United States and Mexico. Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12904 in 1994, which created the Border Environment Cooperation Commission, to oversee development in "Border Region XXI," a region 62-miles wide on either side of the U.S./Mexico border.



This little-known agreement, a side deal in the much-touted North America Free Trade Agreement, was a precursor to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, born in March, 2005. The agreement was reinforced in March, 2006 when the three governments met again, to focus on their agenda to erase national borders.



With even less public attention, plans for an transportation super-corridor were unfolding. This quarter-mile-wide, highway-rail corridor will stretch from Lazaro Cardenas in Southern Mexico, to the Canadian border - and beyond. Kansas City is seen as the primary inland port, that will house both Mexican and U.S. customs officials.



Public hearings are being held now in Texas, where thousands of landowners will be uprooted by right of way acquisitions. It seems to matter very little what the people who are directly affected think, or want. The project rumbles forward, as if the agencies involved had never been exposed to the idea that "...government is empowered by the consent of the governed."



Where is Congress? If there was a bill enacted into law that authorized the Executive Branch to enter into this agreement, or to plan this massive transportation corridor, it certainly didn’t make the news. What little is known about these projects has been dug up by WorldNetDaily and other alternative media.



Government apparently assumes that these projects will be good for America. Whether or not the people want these projects, is not a factor to be considered.



There can be no doubt that commodities will move faster through this super-corridor than current transportation modalities will allow. This includes such things as illegal drugs, illegal aliens, terrorists, and whatever else anyone wants to get into the United States. Promises that the corridor will be "secure" ring hollow - in the light of past efforts to secure the U.S. border.



At the root of the problem is an evolving concept of what America is, or was, or should be. For nearly a century, America led the world in freedom and prosperity, not because government decided what is best for America, but because a free people decided what government could, and could not do.



Somewhere along the way, the people got too busy earning a living, or watching ball games, or shopping, or vacationing, or getting rich off government projects, so that the idea of limiting government initiatives fell out of favor. The idea of a citizen legislature became obsolete. Government became the domain of the professionals. Professional bureaucrats, and professional legislators now run the government, and they are aided by professional NGOs - non-government organizations - who take tax dollars to serve as "partners" with government to give the appearance of public involvement.



Most of America seems perfectly content to let government do whatever it wants. Aside from complaining, there is little evidence that the majority of Americans care enough about what America is becoming, to do the work necessary to return government to the people.



Both the Clinton and Bush administrations have let our borders fade away, by refusing to enforce immigration laws, and by actively promoting the erasure of our borders, through trade agreements that give away American prosperity. These agreements have one goal: to homogenize the economies of the three nations.



Consider this: per capita income in the U.S. is $41,800; in Canada, $34,000; in Mexico, $10,000.



Were these three economies "homogenized," as is the goal of the trade agreements and the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the per capita income of all three nations would be $28,000.



It’s not hard to see who wins, and who loses.



The first responsibility of the U.S. government is to the people of the United States. These tri-lateral agreements are not for the benefit of Americans, but for the benefit of others. We used to have a name for governments that took wealth from those who had it, for redistribution to those who didn’t. Once, it was called communism, socialism, or worse. Now it is called NAFTA, CAFTA, and the Security and Prosperity Agreement.



Once these agreements erase our borders, America will be nothing more than a member of the North American Union, with only a fading memory of glories past.





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RoperAB

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"Consider this: per capita income in the U.S. is $41,800; in Canada, $34,000; in Mexico, $10,000. ""

That is totaly misleading. The average single income in Canada is $38,500 AFTER TAXES. Taxes are high in Canada except in Alberta.
BTW the average family income for Albertans is $66,900 a year after taxes. Plus Canadians dont have private health insurance bills.
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060330/d060330a.htm
We are not some third world country.
Not only that but Alberta has no debt. The highest credit rating in the world. Basically no unemployment. Lower taxes than America. Plus Budjet surpluses that other nations can only dream about.
We get Ralp bucks<$1600 last year for my family> -plus we get Harper daycare bucks< I think thats about $2000 we will get this year>. Every child gets a free $500 educational savings account.
Our biggest problem is the economic growth here is so out of control and we are actually trying to slow it down.
That is dispite the billions of dollars that the rest of the country bleeds out of us ever year. I would have to look it up but I think its about a billion dollars every month.
 

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